“Frankenstein” Final Essay “What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.” (- Abraham Maslow). The novel “Frankenstein” is a novel written by Mary Shelley. This novel plays around with quite a few concepts and themes. However, I would like to argue that the universal truth in Shelley’s novel is that humans find comfort in self-actualization which is shown through the effective presentation of Romantic elements. You may even say that Romantic elements are involved in this novel
Learning Journal: Week 1: Romanticism: • Rose in the 1790s in Germany and Britain, and in the 1820s in France and elsewhere, it is known as the Romantic Movement or Romantic Revival • Writers of the time thought of them self as free spirits that wrote of the imaginative truth within them self, and repudiated the aristocratic way of life. • The creative imagination occupied the centre of Romantic views of art Writers and texts: William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Lewis: Tales of Terror Jane
elements which combine to form this theme. The Gothic as a genre is not something which just emerged ripe and ready for exploitation into the modern era. (Spooner, 2006) It is profoundly concerned with the past, it has a history. The aim of this extended essay is to focus on the seduction of the Gothic